2023-12-31 02:38:04
Los Detroit Pistons This Saturday they broke their deplorable streak of 28 games without winning, the worst in the history of the NBAwith a victory over the Toronto Raptors by 129-127 at Little Caesars Arena.
The Pistons saw the light again before their people
Before his people in Detroit, the Pistons They starred in a match with another agonizing ending, but this time it had a happy ending: the fans exultant and the players with smiles on their lips, visibly relieved.
Los Pistons They had established several negative records in the last week: last Saturday against the Brooklyn Nets they equaled the worst losing streak in a single season with 26. Also on Tuesday against the Nets they surpassed it by reaching 27.
On Thursday, in a dramatic game in Boston, they equaled the worst streak in history, held by the Philadelphia 76ers, who had 28 losses between the end of the 2014-2015 season and the beginning of the 2015-2016 season.
A defeat against Raptors This Saturday I would have made the Pistons not only the team with the worst streak in the NBA alone, but also in American sports, equaling the 29 defeats that the team suffered between 1942 and 1945. NFL Chicago Cardinals.
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Cade Cunningham led the Pistons to victory
But the Pistons They went to their last date with history with less pressure, having improved their game in the last games, in which they paradoxically set those fateful records.
“We feel that we are very close to not only winning one game, but winning many,” local coach Monty Williams said before the game.
Cade Cunningham led the victory over Toronto.
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Los Raptors (12-20) dominated the first quarter, but the Pistons (3-29) quickly took the lead at the start of the second and led the rest of the game.
Los Pistons They had a 10-point lead with 45 seconds left (122-112), but with both teams in bonuses, the Raptors put fear into their bodies by shortening that lead to just two points (129-127) with 2 seconds left. . It wasn’t enough for them.
He led those from Detroit again Cade Cunninghamwho with 30 points -most in the second half- and 12 assists was the soul of the team and the game.
Jalen Duren also had a very serious game with 18 points and 17 rebounds, the Croatian Bojan Bogdanovic with 19 points and Kevin Knox with 17 points.
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In the Raptorswho go down in history with the dubious honor of having fallen to the team that lost 28 games in a row, Pascal Siakam stood out with 35 points and Dennis Schroder with 30 points.
Despite the victory, the Pistons They are still the worst team in the NBAwhile the Raptors are also out of the places that give access to the final phase.
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